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(NoMddeL) J. W. M. UHRIG DISPLAY BOX FOR NEGKTIES.

No, 378,224. Patented Feb. 21, 1888.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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Unrrnn drains Pnrnn'r @rrrca JOHN \V. M. UIIRIG, OF XE-XV YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR TO JAMES FRENCH, OF SAME PLACE.

DISPLAY-BOX FOR NECKTIES.

LSFECIFIQATEION forming part of LettersPatent No. 378,224, datedFebruary 21, 1888.

Application filed November 1, 1887. Serial No. 253,956. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN W. M. Ul-IRIG: of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Display-Boxesfor Neckties, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to a box or case for containing series of cravatsor neckbows, in which the bow portion of each is formed of anintermediate portion of a suitable strip of material, the said box beingdesigned to support said how portions for a display thereof and permitof a disposition of the tying-strips bencath said how portions, as ashield or guard thereof from view and also from dust, 850.;

and it consists in a peculiar construction of a box or case, allsubstantiallyas will be hereinafter more fully described, and set forthin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part ofthis specification, in which the figure is aperspective view of a boxconstructed in accordance with the present invention, with a partthereof broken away 2 and in cross section, showing the dispositiontherein of a series of cravats or necktics.

In the drawing, A represents a box of suitable rectangular form, havingbottom and end and side walls, as shown, and intermediate of its lengtha transverse partition, B. At the inside of each side wall, intermediateof its height, I provide an inwardly-projecting horizontal wing, O, thesaid wings of each side extending almost to the middle longitudinal lineof the boxa Apractieal, inexpensive, and neatmanner of forming the wingsis by employing a strip of card or paste board of suitable width,bending same on a longitudinal line, or, midway of its edges, one, 3 ofsaid angular portions being placed against the inside of the casing andthere soon red by paste, cement, or in any other suitable way, thusholding the angularly-projecting wings as one with and as a rigid per 5tion of the sides of the box.

The cravat or necktie,for the reception and disposition of which the boxof the present invention is designed, as described, is of the formcomprising a bow, a, formed of or at the intermediate portion of anarrow strip of suitable material-as silk, satin, lawn, due.- the end ortying portions of said strip when packed for sale being folded undersaid how in the manner shown in the drawing, and said folded endportions are placed in the bottom of the box, with the wings 0 betweenthem and the loop portions of the necktie.

A common fly-leaf, D, may be confined by its one end to the end of orside of the box, and adapted to lie over the bows, as in many in stanceswill be found desirable.

Partitions, as B, are useful in separating the series of ties into setsof certain desired numbers-as of dozens or half-dozensand by theemployment of wings for holding the bows, as described, said bows aresustained against drooping, they always appearing fresh, crisp, andattractive, are prevented from becoming creased, and preclude, in thedusting of the faces of the bows, any entrance of dust to the underlyingparts of the ties,

While the wings are intended to be projected inwardly from the sidewalls of the box intermediate ol'its height, as shown, said wings may insome cases, if found desirable, be ex- 7 tended in the plane of the topedges of the box, and the formation of the wings is not to be limited toany particular material nor to any particular means of their attachment.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. Areoeptacle and display-box for containingand supporting neckties, of substantially the character described,having its side walls provided with longitudinally and inwardlyextending wings, substantially as described.

2. A receptacle and display-box for containing and supporting neckties,of substantially the character described, having its side walls providedwith longitudinally-extending side wings, each formed of anangularlybent strip of suitable stiff material, one angular portion ofwhich is secured by paste or cement to one of the inner sides of saidbox, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. A receptacle and display-box for containing and supporting neckties,of substantially the character described, having its side wallsintermediate of its height provided with lonrco l l l of an ang.llarly-bent strip of suitable stifi' ma IO terial, one angular portionof which is secured by paste or cement to one of the inner sides of saidbox, all substantially as and for the purpose described.

JOHN W. M. UHRIG.

Vitnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, O. SEDGWIOK.

